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00:00:06So I think my goal as a drag queen is to be known as an artist and not just a
00:00:16female
00:00:16impersonator and really change people's minds about what it means to be a man who dresses
00:00:24up like a woman. I mean like not many 23 year old boys make such a good 40 year old
00:00:32woman.
00:00:56The first time I ever did drag I just used my mom's foundation and then put a bunch of
00:01:05green eye shadow on my eyes and black eyeliner and did my eyebrows black and then put some
00:01:12lipstick on and I wore this really really cheap fake looking plasticky blonde wig and
00:01:21my mom's bustier which was about three sizes too big for me so I had to safety pin it just
00:01:29so that it would stay up on my body and I went to a Halloween party as Hedwig and my
00:01:42mom didn't
00:01:43know about it because my mom had always told me that she was completely fine with me being
00:01:48gay but she thought that being a drag queen would be just pushing it and I think she
00:01:53knew that I always kind of had that brewing inside of me that I wanted to be able to dress
00:02:03up like a woman every once in a while.
00:02:08Well the very first sign was when I found my lingerie in his bedroom that was a pretty big hint.
00:02:15He went through a stage where he'd wear my headbands and my sister's headbands around
00:02:19his waist with long t-shirts and he did that for quite a while.
00:02:24He didn't play with cars and trucks and GI Joes he played with dolls and wore capes and not capes
00:02:31because of superhero capes but capes more like look I'm wearing a dress cape.
00:02:36I just wanted him to feel comfortable with who he was.
00:02:39I never wanted anyone to make him feel like he wasn't allowed to be who he wanted to be.
00:02:45The very first sign she could have had was the fact that I learned every word to the movie
00:02:51Death Becomes Her.
00:02:53Something about their heightened femininity in that and their desire to be young and beautiful forever
00:02:59I think it appeals to people with the drag bone inside of them.
00:03:04Broken down.
00:03:05Flaccid.
00:03:06Boozy.
00:03:07Undertake.
00:03:07Flaccid.
00:03:09Flaccid.
00:03:10Flaccid.
00:03:10I love to talk like Meryl Streep whenever I get a chance.
00:03:14As soon as he watched one movie he would know all the lines and be the people almost their character
00:03:21and he loved Death Becomes Her.
00:03:23I don't know how many times I rented that movie for him and it went on for years.
00:03:26I'm a girl.
00:03:29My ass.
00:03:32Ernest.
00:03:33I can see my ass.
00:03:37I just and another thing I didn't know I wasn't supposed to say is at seven years old
00:03:42my mother really had no business showing me that movie.
00:03:46Get it pull.
00:03:47Go.
00:03:48Get your time.
00:03:51Get your time.
00:03:53Growing up Jerick was always interested in being the female characters.
00:03:57He'd often tell me oh it's because they have better powers or I like their costume better
00:04:02and I always knew it was just him expressing himself.
00:04:06Even playing like Ninja Turtles the little figurines he would want to be the little side
00:04:12character not even one of the main characters as long as he could play the girl.
00:04:17Other things as a kid was like Jessica Rabbit who framed Roger Rabbit and Catwoman was another
00:04:24one.
00:04:26There are a lot of really hyper feminine villains in American culture.
00:04:34I wasn't really raised by a lot of men.
00:04:38I was raised kind of like by a tribe of women.
00:04:41I grew up in a generation where a lot of us were being raised by single moms.
00:04:47It's depicted in television like strong female mother characters.
00:04:54That's just something that's always resonated with me.
00:05:00I think drag is an art form the same way like Comedia Del Arte clowns are an art form.
00:05:10You create a character and kind of have to think with both brains.
00:05:15You have to step into this consciousness of a fictional person and make on the spot decisions
00:05:23and actions and behave this way.
00:05:29You know the way of this person you invented basically.
00:05:34It's not just a form of self-expression but it's a forum for kind of discussing topics
00:05:43and bringing certain things to the foreground that you want people to start talking about.
00:05:50I can call out all kinds of bullshit as jinx that I would never even really talk about
00:05:55as myself.
00:05:58I think the first time Jarek ever went out in full drag was at SMERC which is the Sexual Minority
00:06:04Youth Resource Center.
00:06:06There were a lot of days where we were all just kind of hanging out like around in the
00:06:11main area where there were some couches and a stage and like a CD player and stuff.
00:06:16He put on a CD and he was just like dancing around the rec center like trying to get people
00:06:21to dance with him but nobody would.
00:06:23I was sitting on the couch and he just like asked me if I wanted to like dance around with
00:06:29him and I said no but he decided I was going to so he just like grabbed my arms and
00:06:33pulled
00:06:33me up off the couch and made me dance with him.
00:06:37I guess after that we were friends.
00:06:39Yeah.
00:06:40That's how I met Jarek.
00:06:47SMERC would host monthly drag nights and I think it was the second Friday of every month
00:06:51and then we would have open mic night the last Friday of every month and this has been
00:06:54a long standing tradition.
00:06:56We had a giant costume closet behind the stage that they would spend hours in.
00:07:02I mean Jinx would be in there for hours.
00:07:04The doors would open at 4 and all the queens would go running to the costume closet and
00:07:08then you wouldn't see them until the show started at 8.
00:07:10And I think Jinx was probably 15 or 16 when he did his first performance at SMERC.
00:07:16SMERC is the shit.
00:07:35When I started doing drag at age 15 I was keeping it a secret from my mom.
00:07:41But my grandma knew.
00:07:42I stored all my all my drag stuff at my grandma's house and I would stay with her on the
00:07:49weekends.
00:07:51Originally I learned everything about dressing up like a woman and acting like a woman and
00:07:58what like a polite lady would do from my grandma.
00:08:02And then I felt like it was just as much fun to do the exact opposite of what she told
00:08:08me
00:08:08to do as it was to do exactly what she told me to do.
00:08:12I kept it all secret from mom by hiding it all here.
00:08:15Yeah.
00:08:16And she would just think I was spending the weekend at Nana's.
00:08:19And Nana knew I was going to the nightclub and drag and everything because.
00:08:22So did I.
00:08:23Yeah.
00:08:23No I know you did too.
00:08:25But like Nana I would if she was home I would always go have my last looks with her
00:08:31like have her give me a.
00:08:33Look over your makeup.
00:08:35Yeah.
00:08:35Over the makeup and the hair.
00:08:39I don't remember this one time I was like well I think this hair looks good because
00:08:42I'm doing a country number tonight and this hair is kind of country.
00:08:46And she said something like no no no no Jared country singers have their hair very neat
00:08:51and nice and quaffed and that that does not look very good.
00:08:57And she let me borrow her big gaudy rings and stuff.
00:09:00Yeah she did have gaudy rings that's for sure.
00:09:03Yes.
00:09:03And and I always see I always see everybody out on the front porch.
00:09:09Drinking iced tea because of Nana's iced tea moments.
00:09:18When I was 10 years old it was early September and I was extremely excited for Jerick's coming.
00:09:25I knew he was going to be a little boy and he was already mine.
00:09:29And I had decided that I was part of the pregnancy and on the day he was born I started
00:09:36having cramps in my stomach.
00:09:37And screaming out my baby's coming my baby's coming and everybody thought I was crazy.
00:09:43And then the phone rang and I was called downstairs because my sister was there ready to go to the
00:09:48hospital.
00:09:51Sorry.
00:09:52I always wanted to be a mom always from the time I was little and at one time I was
00:09:58told that I might not be able to have children.
00:10:00So I thought about becoming a nun which makes everybody laugh but I was pretty serious about it at the
00:10:07time.
00:10:08And so when I got pregnant with Jerick I was like so excited and just so I couldn't wait to
00:10:15see him.
00:10:16And they put him in my arms and I'm looking at him and I'm like oh little baby and so
00:10:21excited and he looked up at me and he looked so disappointed like oh god you're my mom really I'm
00:10:27stuck with you again.
00:10:28And I think I've always had that feeling that he's always been so much brighter than me or so much
00:10:34more advanced he's just like an old soul.
00:10:38I was 17 and his mother was I think 22, 23.
00:10:43It wasn't planned.
00:10:46I was actually in a group home.
00:10:51His mom was in pregnancy for I don't know how many hours so long she started in the early afternoon
00:10:59and then we were in the early morning when he actually came.
00:11:04But the doctors looked at my mom and I standing to the side and said this may be a choice
00:11:11between the mother and the baby who do you want us to save.
00:11:15And my mom said the mother and I said the baby because I had already committed to him being mine
00:11:23so I wasn't going to let him go.
00:11:24It's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great, isn't it swell, thank you, isn't it fun, isn't it nowadays.
00:11:39There's cocaine on this.
00:11:41You can like the life you're living.
00:11:44And you see there's a little boy in my throat.
00:11:46You can live the life you like.
00:11:49You can, if one, marry, hurry, but mess around with Ike.
00:11:57Oh wait, you can't see that on camera.
00:11:59I poked his dick.
00:12:00And that's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great, isn't it swell, isn't it.
00:12:08Jarek and I met our first week at Cornish College of the Arts and became fast friends.
00:12:16He seemed pretty shy and reserved and quiet at first and so I went up to him and we started
00:12:25talking and then I realized what a weirdo, crazy person he was and we became super fast friends.
00:12:35I first met Jarek when he was a freshman at Cornish.
00:12:39I remember him because he was kind of a shy gay boy with dyed hair and he stood out.
00:12:48He had been performing drag for a while at that point, which is unusual at that age.
00:12:56Jarek started taking the fundamentals of what we were learning at Cornish and applying it to his drag and creating
00:13:05new characters
00:13:06and these fully rounded female presences.
00:13:12I don't think I introduced him to anyone yet because he was like 18 years old and I wanted to
00:13:17keep my job.
00:13:18So I wasn't going to be like farming him out to bars and burlesque shows, but I could recognize his
00:13:26talent.
00:13:27Seeing how he's taken his acting training towards Jinx and made her this wild creature you see before you has
00:13:37been incredible to watch.
00:13:39She's not a Christian, oh no!
00:13:41She's not a Christian, oh no!
00:13:43She's not a Christian, oh no!
00:13:44She's burning up, starting to stop!
00:13:47Yeah!
00:13:48Yeah!
00:13:49Yeah!
00:13:50Yeah!
00:14:00I was able to find Sylvia Ostefermore, who does a monthly theme show bacon strip.
00:14:08And this is where I developed, I think, the most of my Jinx persona and kind of honed in on
00:14:14the different things that really excite me with drag.
00:14:18Well, I have planned this whole number where I was going to come out with a roller skate, right?
00:14:22And I was going to be like,
00:14:23I love to love you baby, baby, baby, so sweet.
00:14:29But I thought roller skate very well, so it's going to be something like this, you know?
00:14:33And it really challenged me to think of material that is relevant to me and stuff within my wheelhouse,
00:14:39but accessible to a wide audience.
00:14:56I spent a year doing every one of her shows.
00:14:59I didn't miss one for 12 months straight.
00:15:02I don't want to show off no more.
00:15:10I don't want to sing tunes no more.
00:15:14This really is the best costume to wear for the day, you understand?
00:15:24That was some of the most creative time for me because I was able to think what does Jinx do
00:15:29with Studio 54 thing?
00:15:32And how does Jinx tackle the question of like doing a John Waters tribute night?
00:15:37And it has such a cult following that it kind of built up my notoriety in Seattle.
00:15:44Bacon Strip is built as a show that is not like all the other regular drag shows.
00:15:50The rule is they cannot do normal things that you would see at another drag show.
00:16:18And it wasn't completely polished, but that was the fun part about it.
00:16:22And I was kind of amazed because she had said that she had gone back home to Portland and tried
00:16:25it for a while
00:16:26and they just didn't really embrace her as well.
00:16:28And I said, well, I'm ready to embrace you as long as you want to stay.
00:16:33And I figured I'd probably give her about a year until she took off.
00:16:58And so she won the first Miss Bacon Strip title and she wore the crown with pride.
00:17:05I think she actually even ate the, um, because we make a big bouquet of roses out of bacon.
00:17:12And I think she got in a drunken mood and might have even eaten one.
00:17:16Um, which we don't recommend because they're not completely cooked through.
00:17:19But, uh, I believe she did. I think she ate one.
00:17:25We kind of ushered her into the drag scene with our crazy show
00:17:28and then she went mainstream with the regular show on the weekends
00:17:31so she could actually make money. So, it was great.
00:17:46From the moment I started drag, I was in drag every weekend from, like, age 16 to 19.
00:17:57Julia's LaFoe, the number one celebrity impersonation show in the Northwest.
00:18:03They approached me to be their host of their show.
00:18:06And that is when my drag kicked up a notch, you know.
00:18:11I went from just being the kooky, obscure cabaret queen to trying to be a bit more of a showgirl.
00:18:18Jarek is ridiculously talented.
00:18:21And myself and a couple other entertainers got the director of our show to pay attention.
00:18:30And, unbeknownst to me, he offered her my job.
00:18:35This is working in Seattle.
00:18:41And I gave her my blessing. I told her, I said, you know,
00:18:43I know you didn't come in here doing this on purpose.
00:18:45You didn't come in here to take anything from me.
00:18:49So, I'm not, I'm not angry. I can't be angry.
00:18:51But let me give you some advice so that you can go into this situation educated and with ammunition.
00:18:58Because remember, you have what they want.
00:19:02I spent a year working with showgirls and glamour queens and seeing what goes into being glamorous, you know.
00:19:09And I started to kind of understand it better.
00:19:11Because before, all I liked to do was wear a simple black cocktail dress, tease my hair into a bun,
00:19:17a little black eyeliner and call it good.
00:19:19This is how you stay thin in Seattle. You don't take cabs.
00:19:23You just walk everywhere in stilettos.
00:19:26It's my calisthenics for the day.
00:19:31Me and my friend used to do, like, street performance for tips.
00:19:36You know, like we would go to farmer's markets and perform for shekels on the street as, um, wind-up
00:19:44doll mimes.
00:19:45And we met Nick that night.
00:19:48Somehow Nick and I just started, like, talking and we became friends.
00:19:51And we found out we had identical senses of humor.
00:19:57He started visiting me down in Portland on my summer breaks and stuff.
00:20:01He came up with this idea for us to film, like, a day in the life of the Monsoon family.
00:20:06And that became our little web series.
00:20:09This is how you're making your money?
00:20:12Hey, bag!
00:20:17I don't have time to punish you right now.
00:20:20So just give me a fix.
00:20:23How much do you charge?
00:20:24Well, we have sacks of gonge for $20, bags of blow for $40, and for $10, you get to pick
00:20:30one item out of the mystery bag.
00:20:32Will it be a crock crock?
00:20:33Will it be a poisonous scorpion?
00:20:35The answer is yours to discover.
00:20:36Oh, shut up!
00:20:38Ow!
00:20:38I got pricked with something!
00:20:40That'll be $10.
00:20:41All right, buster.
00:20:43That's enough funny business.
00:20:44Come on, we're going home.
00:20:45But, Mama, I'm finally being self-sufficient and industrious.
00:20:48Why can't you just let me be me?
00:20:51It's about a mother and son who live together and try to become rich every episode,
00:20:56but they're socially inept and they're both intoxicated all the time.
00:21:05And that's all there is to the show.
00:21:07It's, like, kind of stupid, actually.
00:21:11It's this really, like, rich, full-on, like, multi-dimensional tapestry of interpersonal relationship
00:21:22boiled down to the fact that I'm a drag queen, he's a gay boy, and we somehow work together as
00:21:28mother and son.
00:21:31If you could, like, say, two gay men about the same age, if you could, like, find a relationship between
00:21:42those two people,
00:21:43we've had every form of relationship that two gay men at about the same age could have.
00:21:50We've been best friends, we've been lovers, we've been, like, collaborators, we've been artistic.
00:21:58Like, we've feuded, we've fought, we've loved, we've fucked, we've done everything.
00:22:04And because of that, there's nothing, there's nothing, like, on, there's nothing off-limits between Nick and I.
00:22:14Of all the relationships he and I have had in our history together, co-comedian seems like the most apropos
00:22:25between one another.
00:22:29I've learned from Jarek that there's always going to be a million people who think that what you're doing isn't
00:22:36the right thing to do
00:22:37or is silly or isn't gonna go anywhere, but if you work hard enough, you can get there, and I
00:22:44think that's what Jarek showed to me.
00:22:47I don't think I really understood what my drag persona was and who I wanted it to be until I
00:22:54came to Seattle.
00:22:55There was something going on in Seattle that wasn't going on in Portland, where drag queens were being incorporated into
00:23:01other areas of performance that wasn't just drag.
00:23:12NARC Magazine started when I moved to Seattle out of an appreciation for all of the characters here.
00:23:18People that were doing a lot of crazy, fierce, amazing things that nobody was really looking at or documenting.
00:23:23Spiraled into doing a lot of parties, events, concerts, drag, everything.
00:23:37What I really like about Seattle's specific aesthetic is the fact that we put the performance above everything else.
00:23:45Like, we kind of will overlook, like, kind of a, you know, a weird-looking drag queen.
00:23:53We won't really focus in on how they're unfashionable or how their aesthetic is gaudy or tacky or anything like
00:24:00that.
00:24:01People look past, you know, just the visual of the drag and look into what they're actually doing.
00:24:19Attention all glamazons. Casting for RuPaul's Drag Race is on. I'm looking for America's next drag superstar.
00:24:29Hello RuPaul. Welcome to sunny Seattle, Washington. My name is Jarek Hoffer and I'm also known as Jinx Monsoon,
00:24:41Seattle's hardest working single mother. I started doing drag when I was 15 years old at an all-ages gay
00:24:47nightclub.
00:24:48So this is the extremely glamorous life of a drag queen.
00:24:59Hello. My name is Jinx Monsoon and welcome to my underwear.
00:25:06I was one of the hottest vaudeville singers in the 1920s. It's true.
00:25:12I'm just a broad white baby.
00:25:17You look absolutely terrific, honestly. He's got sort of a light blue on.
00:25:22Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a vibe.
00:25:26I don't think that I'm the competitive type. I like to compete with people, not against them.
00:25:32And when it comes to working with other drag queens, I always try to treat other queens like my sister
00:25:39until they give me a reason not to. You know, RuPaul, you've been around the block a few hundred times,
00:25:48I'm sure.
00:25:53Are you stalking me?
00:25:55I knew he was going to be famous, or I just knew something about him.
00:26:01And I thought it was going to be football. So I gave him a really cool football name.
00:26:05Jarek Roman Lamar Hoffer. And I thought it'd be really cool. J.R. Lamar.
00:26:09Sounded like so football. But as he started growing, I knew that wasn't going to happen.
00:26:19I don't think I was ready to come out until I saw the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
00:26:24And it's lucky that I saw it right before my mom outed me, because I wasn't ready to be out
00:26:30before I saw that movie.
00:26:33The material Hedwig and the Angry Inch has always been really personal to me.
00:26:38It was my senior thesis performance at Cornish. And so when Balagan approached me about it, I said yes immediately.
00:26:47I didn't know, though, that I would be doing it while I was secretly waiting for the announcement to be
00:26:55made that I was on RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:26:58Oh, now I do feel like Meryl Streep. Now I am like Meryl Streep. Look at this. Wrinkled, wrinkled little
00:27:05star. Hope they never see the scars.
00:27:11And then right before Hedwig opened, the announcement was made that I was going to be on season five of
00:27:16Drag Race.
00:27:16And I was the first Seattle queen, first Northwest queen ever to go on.
00:27:20And it was really interesting performing like, for me, the ultimate show in my, in my repertoire.
00:27:30Like while I was also being exposed nationally on Drag Race.
00:27:37He must have been 15 or 16 years old and she called me and she told me that Jarek had
00:27:46come out to her.
00:27:49What are we going to do?
00:27:52And I just thought for a second, well, are you going to stop loving him?
00:27:57And she was like, no.
00:27:59And I was like, well, you're not going to do anything because he's the same person he was.
00:28:06Nothing's changed.
00:28:10So, there's just a realization now that he's come out and he's telling you who he is.
00:28:16Which is still the same person he was before he told you.
00:28:25When I talk to my dad, I feel like we just talk about the, the default type guy stuff.
00:28:32You know, we talk about cars and work and it never gets very deep.
00:28:38My relationship with Jarek is very much the same.
00:28:42We don't talk much and I don't see him often.
00:28:46And when we do, the last time I saw him, I think the conversation is very, I don't know, it's
00:28:56awkward.
00:28:56It's, it's strained, it's, it's not, it's not organic.
00:29:08I wasn't there a whole lot, so I probably wasn't the best father.
00:29:22Jarek and Jeremy were my father growing up, basically, because I, my father wasn't really around my entire childhood.
00:29:30And so, Jarek was definitely always taking care of me when my mom wasn't.
00:29:34And there were times when it was mostly Jarek and our Nana and our Aunt Mimi definitely played a big
00:29:40part in my parental field.
00:29:42But Jarek was always around as a father figure and big brother.
00:29:46When I was a little gay boy, I always felt like I wasn't as cute as my friends.
00:29:52But when I started doing drag, I felt like I don't have to be as cute as my friends, because
00:29:57I'm gorgeous as a woman.
00:30:11I just feel like people should be able to express themselves in their day-to-day life free of fear.
00:30:23What's better than one gold purse? Two gold purse. Gucci. Gucci.
00:30:35I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by.
00:30:43But when I got to the river, it's a lonesome thing I want to do today.
00:31:12I definitely feel like I have a second family here in Seattle.
00:31:16And, like, I have a very strong relationship with my blood family in Portland.
00:31:20But I feel like my chosen family in Seattle is, like, you know, comparably as strong.
00:31:26And we're very tight-knit and close to one another.
00:31:31And it consists, you know, primarily of some of my best friends from college and some of my best friends
00:31:39from childhood.
00:31:40And then, you know, fellow performers.
00:31:48It feels cliche to say, like, we're all very eccentric, zany people, you know, but, um, I don't know.
00:31:54I think you could make a sitcom about us.
00:31:56I think you could make a sitcom about us.
00:32:06Jinx, are you gonna add that hair into that hair?
00:32:09Yeah.
00:32:10My grandma got me this wig when I was, like, 17.
00:32:13So your grandma was buying you wigs, girl?
00:32:15My mom wasn't really into it.
00:32:17Uh-huh.
00:32:18But my grandma and I would be getting me in drag, and then I'd go out to the club.
00:32:22She'd let me be who I wanted to be, you know?
00:32:24When Jarek was on RuPaul, my friends and I, every week, we would get together at my house and watch
00:32:30it, um, on TV.
00:32:32We'd have, like, potluck dinners.
00:32:34And, um, from the beginning, they would show this one clip of Jarek saying,
00:32:38I feel so guilty and crying.
00:32:40And we were all like, God, what is that about?
00:32:42What, you know?
00:32:43Um, and, but it was kind of neat.
00:32:46When we see that, we knew he was going further because that episode hadn't aired yet.
00:32:50So it was like, oh, my gosh, they keep showing that clip so we know he's getting further in the
00:32:54show
00:32:54because it didn't come up.
00:32:55And we all, then my friends would ask me, what is he so guilty about?
00:32:59I'm like, I don't know.
00:32:59And I would try to call him and ask him, you know, what is that all about?
00:33:03What were you feeling so bad about?
00:33:05And then when that episode happened, um, it was horrible
00:33:09because I was sitting there with my friends and it got all quiet.
00:33:12And everybody was staring at me like, oh, my gosh.
00:33:15My mom became an alcoholic when I was about 12, right after my youngest brother was born.
00:33:21I'm the oldest.
00:33:21And when she would be out every night doing her thing, I was the one being the parent.
00:33:27As soon as I became independent from my mother, my, my life improved tenfold.
00:33:33But I continually regret and like second guess the fact that I left my youngest brother
00:33:40with a, with a woman who wasn't ready to be a mom.
00:33:44It just kind of took me by surprise.
00:33:47And it made me feel bad because I never knew that he felt that way.
00:33:51And I worry about him all the time because if I had it my way, he would have come with
00:33:56me.
00:33:57And sometimes when I'm like doing like this, I feel so selfish.
00:34:01Don't, jeez.
00:34:02To have left my youngest brother.
00:34:04Don't, not at all.
00:34:05It feels like right now, like I've abandoned him.
00:34:08You haven't.
00:34:08Your parents are the people who are supposed to protect you.
00:34:11And sometimes they're the people putting you in most jeopardy.
00:34:14I thought I was doing a good job.
00:34:16And I know there was difficult times, but I had no idea that I had affected him so deeply.
00:34:21The second that it aired, my mom and I were on the phone with each other.
00:34:26I guess I was being so selfish at the time, not even realizing what I was doing or how it
00:34:32was affecting him.
00:34:32I thought when I was drinking, we were all laughing and dancing and having fun.
00:34:37So in my perspective, we were all enjoying it.
00:34:41And it's sad to find out that it was, it was hurtful for him.
00:34:45We had a really good conversation that night.
00:34:47And she, she kind of just said that she understood that it's just a part of my story with my
00:34:54life.
00:34:56And that sharing it was just a, you know, it was just a given.
00:35:01And she didn't hold any ill will towards me about it.
00:35:05And that was all I really needed to hear.
00:35:09When it did air, it kind of brought things forward where I had to accept how I had made him
00:35:15feel.
00:35:15I've just been so nervous about this episode airing because I don't want it to seem like I hate my
00:35:21mom.
00:35:22My mom was, I mean, like my mom has been a wonderful friend to me for the last couple of
00:35:27years.
00:35:27We went through a rough patch, but I really love her.
00:35:30And there's ways, there's ways to get over trauma and live your life no matter what, ladies and gentlemen.
00:35:43You know, I did it all by myself for so many years.
00:35:46With very little, with very little outside help, very little coaching, very little, you know, I did everything myself.
00:35:54And let's face it, you can't be good at everything.
00:35:57You know, you can be really, really intelligent and really talented and stuff, but you're never going to be good
00:36:04at every single aspect of something.
00:36:07And I said, maybe it's time to start asking for a little bit of help with certain things.
00:36:13I have someone who helps me with wigs and someone who helps me with styling and costumes, and I feel
00:36:22a little bit more equipped to do, to meet the demands of being a nationally known drag queen.
00:36:29I mean, the most valuable player in Monsoon Enterprises right now is Kenneth Lee, my best friend and assistant.
00:36:44He's the only person right now who I think knows what goes into becoming Jinx Monsoon almost as well as
00:36:52I do.
00:36:54Now that I have these giant nails, it's really hard to put my lashes on myself.
00:37:03So Kenny is now hands-on assisting me.
00:37:08Kenny pretty much immediately told me he wanted to travel with me and be my assistant.
00:37:14My first instinct was I said no and that we shouldn't do that because I was worried it was going
00:37:20to affect our friendship.
00:37:24We call each other platonic soul mates, like we're kind of the yin and yang to each other, but we're
00:37:31not in a romantic relationship.
00:37:33We're just best friends.
00:37:34Well, now we kind of say we're more like brothers.
00:37:38I was worried it was going to make a lot of tension arise between us, and it has.
00:37:46So we have times where we get really sick of each other because we pretty much are together every day.
00:37:54And so it kind of makes us tense at times, and sometimes we bicker needlessly.
00:38:01That's the pros and cons to like having someone who you feel like is family to you work with you
00:38:09on something like this.
00:38:10It's like you accept that you're going to get tense with each other, but when things are working well, they
00:38:15work so amazingly.
00:38:16And it's so wonderful to have your best friend and have someone familiar with you when you're like traveling for
00:38:22seven months on end.
00:38:23You know, like if I didn't have him, I probably would.
00:38:28I don't know. I always say like I'd either go crazy or drink more.
00:38:51I don't think much is going to be different if I lose.
00:38:54I think the only difference between winning and losing for me right now is the title.
00:38:59We have to get up and get on a plane to LA.
00:39:02I get to play the drag queen, and Nick gets to play the girl in the audience who watches.
00:39:08He's going with us to the reunion filming, and he's going to sit in the audience next to my mom
00:39:15and my youngest brother.
00:39:19Good luck with that.
00:39:22He'll be drunk.
00:39:23My mom's like, oh, Nick is the kind of guy I would have gone for when I was your age,
00:39:29Jericho.
00:39:29Oh, he's so cute. He's so charming.
00:39:33He's such a little rebel.
00:39:34Your mom's really okay, guys.
00:39:35You know, she's just into little assholes.
00:39:48I think of RuPaul's Drag Race like it changed every aspect of my life, like every single aspect of my
00:39:57life.
00:39:57My boy life, my drag life. If I lose, I've already won so much that the only thing I'd be
00:40:05losing is the title.
00:40:06But I wouldn't be losing myself.
00:40:08So they're going to film the winner, but what they do to keep it a secret for even longer is
00:40:17they take, they film all three of the top three winning.
00:40:21And then in the finale episode with the reunion, they air just the winner.
00:40:31So they film all three, but they only air one and the one that gets aired is the winner.
00:40:37So even the three of us don't know who wins until America knows who wins.
00:40:43I don't even know who's in the top three.
00:40:54Okay, the cab's outside.
00:40:57I think I auditioned saying, oh, I just want to go into it for the experience and who cares what
00:41:05happens.
00:41:06But now that I've gotten this close to it, I realize just how exceptionally much I want this.
00:41:18I think I've opened the right doors through just getting as far as I got to do what I want
00:41:27to do for the rest of my life.
00:41:35Okay, so we just have three ground rules.
00:41:38One, which you've already all abided to, which is putting your cell phones in the bucket so that we don't
00:41:44want any spoiler alerts.
00:41:45If you heard what happened on the East Coast, has anyone heard what happened on the East Coast?
00:41:52Perfect.
00:41:53Okay, so we want to keep it.
00:41:55We want to keep it as a surprise for all of us.
00:41:58Number two is if you aren't caught up on the season, don't ask any questions.
00:42:10Number three is there will be absolutely zero talking during the show.
00:42:18And we can have as much conversation as we want during commercial.
00:42:22We can gasp.
00:42:23We can laugh.
00:42:24We can go, you know, you can do a really quick like, oh, no, she better don't.
00:42:28But like, that is it.
00:42:30Keep it to that.
00:42:31If Jinx wins, we're all going to do a champagne toast.
00:42:36Of course.
00:42:37Provided with the champagne everyone else brought.
00:42:38If Jinx loses, we're all going to choose one piece of garbage from the garbage can and eat it.
00:42:46So, hope you're all on board.
00:42:48I didn't put that in the Facebook invite, but that's what you signed up for.
00:42:53Absolutely no talking.
00:42:56Wow.
00:42:59So, Jinxie, how are you feeling at this very moment?
00:43:03I feel like a more fully realized drag queen.
00:43:05I feel like a more fully realized human being.
00:43:09Well, Jinxie, you have continued to surprise and delight your fans.
00:43:12Best of all, I think you've even surprised yourself.
00:43:17The time has come to crown our queen.
00:43:23America's next drag superstar is...
00:43:33Jinx Monsoon.
00:43:58That moment, I'm getting goosebumps now.
00:44:01When they announced, I just, I started crying and we were screaming through the neighborhood.
00:44:06You know, it was just, it was an amazing moment because I know how much it meant to them.
00:44:10Now, open your little mouth.
00:44:26With both of my parents, it was kind of like the best way to rebel was to be a good
00:44:31kid.
00:44:32Like, they were expecting me to follow in their footsteps and start drinking and smoke your weed and go to
00:44:38parties
00:44:39and doing all that kind of shit really early.
00:44:42Because that's what they did.
00:44:43But for me, I wasn't interested in anything like that because I wanted to rebel against my parents.
00:44:50And I did that by being a straight-A student and doing after-school theater!
00:44:54But when I was 22 was the first time that I smoked.
00:44:58And it was with Kenny.
00:45:01For a high-strung, like very self-conscious, very anal retentive and OCD Virgo like me,
00:45:11the first time that I smoked, it was like this huge exhale where everything that I'm constantly carrying around on
00:45:22my shoulders just kind of wasn't there anymore.
00:45:26Like, it kind of opened up like the ability to make fun of myself in a way I never had
00:45:31dreamt of before.
00:45:35And now I make a lot of fun of myself all the time.
00:45:39I'll tell you this much, I wouldn't have known I was so good at doing little Edie impressions had I
00:45:43not started smoking.
00:46:02In true Jinx monsoon fashion, they put the crown on my head and then I walked into something.
00:46:08Just slammed it into the speaker.
00:46:10And then immediately after that they took the crown away from me and told me they'd ship it to me.
00:46:16So, this is my first time seeing it since New York.
00:46:20He's always used humor in a way to calm people down or to mask how he's feeling and to turn
00:46:28things around to where he's not feeling so uptight
00:46:31and uses humor to, I think, sometimes hide some of the pain he might feel inside.
00:46:38But he's always had, you know, this funny quirky side. He's always been just so imaginative.
00:46:49I want to say the Seattle drag scene is less superficial than other drag scenes I've seen.
00:46:55But in saying that, that sounds a little pretentious.
00:46:59But even that is kind of like part of the Seattle drag scene.
00:47:04It's like, it's just the right amount of pretentious, you know.
00:47:09I feel like people feel really free to do what they want to do with their specific style.
00:47:15And you see that in the diversity of drag that you have in Seattle.
00:47:19So, we have all my favorites performing in the show tonight, starting with the hostess of the evening, my sister,
00:47:25Binda LeGrand.
00:47:26Hello.
00:47:27This is the Shanghai Pearl, my first exposure to burlesque.
00:47:33Of course, we have my preferred dressmaker and one of my favorite performers and co-cast members in the Daily
00:47:41Rue Presents shows that we do, Jamie Von Stratton.
00:47:44And then over here, we have Shirdana, Lou, and Kitten LeRue.
00:47:49And back there, there's the Luminous Pariah.
00:47:51Here we have Fuchsia Fox, who's not only a talented burlesque performer, but also a gorgeous belly dancer.
00:47:58Sydney Devereaux, who gave me and Richard our first spot in Seattle on the burlesque stage at the Pink Door.
00:48:06So we go way back.
00:48:08Of course, Richard Andreessen, my music partner, a.k.a. Dr. Von Dandy, a.k.a. Major Scales.
00:48:14This is Gabriela Sanchez-Somano.
00:48:18And then, of course, we have Kitty Kitty Bang Bang delivering Jessica Rabbit, one of my childhood fantasy characters.
00:48:26And then Jackson Brown's dicking around back there.
00:48:29He normally does Cher and Kesha in our show because those two people are so much alike.
00:48:35I think she's ready now. Ladies and gentlemen, you can stand up when I'm done with this.
00:48:40I want to say I knew he was going to win. I mean, he's my son. Who else is going
00:48:47to win?
00:48:56I'm so sorry. I'm not going to wear this thing because it's actually terribly unfundable.
00:49:02I wanted to show you guys. Look, it's a crown.
00:49:09Well, that's right. That's right. I'm sad and blue because I can't do the boogaloo.
00:49:14I'm lost. I'm lost. Can't do my thing. That's why I sing.
00:49:18Gimme, gimme that damn.
00:49:19What good's a metronome without a bell for ringing?
00:49:23How fast can anybody ever tell she's swinging?
00:49:27How can you tell the rhythm written on a bar?
00:49:31How can you ever hope to know just where you are?
00:49:34Gimme that! That! Gimme, gimme, give me that
00:49:39Gimme, gimme, gimme that!
00:50:00Richard and I met because basically we were two of the only three gay guys in our class
00:50:04and we both had really interesting hats that we wore every day and so we kind of hit on each
00:50:10other with our hats like I noticed you wearing your duck hunter hat while I'm wearing my
00:50:15you know Nepalese Sherpa hat like maybe we should get together and our hats should get a drink
00:50:20sometime you know it was kind of like that it was really dorky and then the first time we hung
00:50:25out
00:50:26just one-on-one we knew right away we didn't have any sexual or romantic chemistry
00:50:36at the end of our sophomore year we decided to move in together and once we lived together we
00:50:41started really saying all the things we had in common and that's how we developed the
00:50:47vaudevillians because only the two of us thought it was funny for a long time we just found a way
00:50:53to make our sense of humor accessible to normal people I never thought that I'd get to tour the
00:51:11world and work on a show that I wrote myself and then I conceived in college and have been working
00:51:17on since then you know so it's very exciting that like it now has a life of its own and
00:51:23there's
00:51:24potential for it to grow
00:51:39my heart down baby
00:52:04so this is battle of the seasons Vancouver I really like doing these shows because I really really like
00:52:10performing with the other drag race girls
00:52:18it's nice because it's like you've got a support team and you've got all these people who know
00:52:24what you've been through and you know know the experience and know what life is like now after
00:52:29you go on reality tv especially like with people like Willem and Pandora and Manila and Carmen these
00:52:39girls that I used to watch on tv and used to be so starstruck by and now I just got
00:52:45thrown into
00:52:49their world and they were so accepting like you really do feel like these girls are your sisters
00:52:53because they they understand what you're going through on the road and they know the pressures
00:52:58of it all and stuff so it was like surreal to go from watching these people on tv and being
00:53:03like
00:53:04oh these are the coolest people ever to being their friend and then their colleague like that
00:53:10and that's the interesting part of it it's fun but it's surreal sometimes when you realize
00:53:17the people you used to watch on tv are now your your co-stars you know
00:53:32it's broken i guess so i know can i see what dresses i'm not trying to yell
00:53:51you know i had never considered putting myself in that competitive zone before because i i had
00:53:59interest in you know being the best that i can be but i didn't have interest in competing and it
00:54:04was
00:54:04when i did drag race i kind of like i realized that i don't have to change to be the
00:54:09best i just have
00:54:10to be the best at myself and michelle harsh as she may have been at times i still think back
00:54:16on the
00:54:16things she said to me because from the beginning all she was wanting was to see me do it a
00:54:21hundred
00:54:22percent you know it's not about change your look change your look i don't want that i don't want
00:54:26you to change your look i don't i want the queen to be the best version of themselves that they
00:54:30can
00:54:30be and i can see when you're not yeah i can see when you're stopping yourself that's what i was
00:54:35saying
00:54:53we're in des moines washington for the high line community college sixth annual drag show for the unity
00:55:03through diversity week welcome to my community college campus
00:55:23i don't know what i'm gonna do like ninety percent of my material is gratuitous dick jokes
00:55:30what am i gonna do with all these children here what's a pg 13 what's a what's a pg oh
00:55:39my god
00:55:39that kid's like four what's a g-rated way to say blowjob should i just go
00:55:48when you're given a mana i can't whistle well enough to do that when you're given a man i'm
00:55:59no um when two people like each other a lot occasionally they give each other kisses
00:56:07on their daddy rod
00:56:17there's literally babies screaming
00:56:25i'm gonna have to tell disney joe i am so privileged to be uh emceeing the sixth annual highline drag
00:56:34show
00:56:35um and um i'm going to start the evening out with a little number full of crass humor that doesn't
00:56:42offend children
00:57:05i don't really think any
00:57:09many kids while i was growing up really reacted to it in a negative way i mean
00:57:15there were definitely some people who weren't accepting of it and there's still people who
00:57:19weren't accepting of gay people and all that but for the most part i just nobody ever really cared
00:57:26they just thought he was my older brother and that was it
00:57:32it was always kind of crazy but in like a good kind of i don't know it was always crazy
00:57:40at our house
00:57:40like it was never normal i think uh all three of us were really close and then when jerek you
00:57:48know kind
00:57:48of moved to college and started doing his like own thing and started expanding his his um options more
00:57:56like what he was going to do with his life it was like kind of shitty because i was like
00:58:03so close
00:58:04with him you know and so like it was kind of like me losing like a best friend or like
00:58:08he's my brother
00:58:10but like he's like my best friend so um but i don't want it to get so big and crazy
00:58:17that he completely
00:58:18forgets about jerek and it's just jinx you know because that's not good and yeah you know sometimes
00:58:27sometimes when you put on a full face of makeup and a wig and everything
00:58:32it's funny because like i'm looking in the mirror and i just don't see jerek anymore you know like i
00:58:38know
00:58:39who i am and i know i'm just playing a character right now but sometimes even i look in the
00:58:44mirror and
00:58:45i'm like who the hell is that woman looking back at me when you do your makeup right even you
00:58:50can't
00:58:51recognize yourself sometimes like i don't even see that goofy little redheaded boy right now i just see
00:58:59jinx one soon but it's fun i don't know it's fun
00:59:14he woke up in the middle of night crying and saying why didn't god make me a girl and so
00:59:21i kind
00:59:21of had an idea when he was i think he was about three years old and so we had a
00:59:26long talk about
00:59:26that and i said well if you feel like you should be a female you know they do perform operations
00:59:34nowadays and you know we can look into that for you but that means so i said but that means
00:59:40losing
00:59:40your penis um you know if you have the surgery and he's like nobody's taking my penis away from me
00:59:46so
00:59:46then we never talked about it again he had pretty much decided he wanted to keep his penis but he
00:59:51liked
00:59:51dressing up
01:00:08i'm a girl put the face in your
01:00:13i'm a girl put the face in my face so that's your whole body talk
01:00:19that's still in the door
01:00:20so
01:00:22so
01:00:23Yeah, it's so pretty.
01:00:25Yeah, it's so pretty.
01:00:57It's going to take 20 minutes because we have to like, oh my God, we have to essentially
01:01:04take it all off, just pee for 20 seconds and then put it all back on.
01:01:09Oh my goodness.
01:01:13That's the thing is when a drag queen has to pee, she's not kidding.
01:01:18If she has to pee, you move out of the way, mama.
01:01:23Oh my goodness.
01:01:25Oh my God.
01:01:27Here's what I normally do.
01:01:29Just keep everything in place.
01:01:30I take one, two, three, off.
01:01:36Fourth pair.
01:01:37Keep the big hips in place.
01:01:41And then I can, no, don't capture this, Alex.
01:01:46Oh my God.
01:01:47Fifth pair.
01:01:52Keeps the hip pads in place.
01:01:55But doesn't unleash everything.
01:01:59You're taking the stream.
01:02:01I will not let you air the stream, Alex Berry.
01:02:07The point is, every time a drag queen gets the pee in the middle of night,
01:02:17a fairy gets its wings.
01:02:21You're such a bastard.
01:02:31Okay.
01:02:32I think that's it.
01:02:33I will pee like a normal person would.
01:02:37But I had to hide it from the rest of the world.
01:02:39Because it would spoil their idea of
01:02:49the whole goddess illusion.
01:02:52I don't want to spoil that idea.
01:02:56I want people to believe in miracles.
01:02:58I want people to believe in fairy godmothers and drag queens and wishes and witches and all that stuff.
01:03:07But I'm just a man.
01:03:08I'm just a man dressed as a woman.
01:03:10And you have to readjust all the undergarments.
01:03:15Because if you've got back rolls,
01:03:18people will read you for it.
01:03:21You'll show up in some photo blog the next day.
01:03:26Back rolls.
01:03:28Back rolls.
01:03:30Yes, Miss Hunty.
01:03:32She had back rolls.
01:03:34Ooh.
01:03:35America's Next Drag Superstar
01:03:37had
01:03:38back rolls.
01:03:52I got this.
01:03:53I got this.
01:03:54Look at me.
01:03:55I don't got it.
01:03:56I don't got it.
01:03:58No, it's okay.
01:03:59You just need to bunch it up like this.
01:04:00I'll show you.
01:04:01I can do it on my own.
01:04:03It just drives me.
01:04:04It just drives me to that crazy place.
01:04:07I know I could exist without Kenny.
01:04:09I just don't want to.
01:04:11Drag is a family thing.
01:04:12It's like a,
01:04:13it's a group effort.
01:04:14It takes a village.
01:04:19More than one time,
01:04:21let's just say many, many times,
01:04:23men have come up alongside me,
01:04:26driving alongside me
01:04:27while I'm walking home.
01:04:28And they slow the car down.
01:04:31And they roll down the window
01:04:32and they like,
01:04:33look through the window
01:04:34and they're like,
01:04:35Hey, how are you getting home?
01:04:39You want a ride?
01:04:40I'm like,
01:04:41No, I'm just,
01:04:43because the thing is,
01:04:44you don't want to let them know
01:04:45right away that you're a man.
01:04:46Because what if they get angry?
01:04:48What if they think
01:04:49you're like a female prostitute
01:04:50or something
01:04:51and then they hear your man voice
01:04:52and they get angry
01:04:53so you don't want to be like,
01:04:54No, I'm going home.
01:04:55You don't want to fuck with them
01:04:56because if they get angry,
01:04:58they're the one in the car
01:04:59and you're the one
01:05:00walking home alone, you know?
01:05:01So I always do it
01:05:02in my femmy voice.
01:05:04Because then if they're
01:05:05a tranny chaser,
01:05:06then they're getting
01:05:06what they expect.
01:05:07And if they're not
01:05:08a tranny chaser,
01:05:09then at least I'm like
01:05:10under the radar.
01:05:11So I just go,
01:05:12No, I'm just walking home.
01:05:14I'm okay.
01:05:15I don't need a ride.
01:05:17I don't need a ride.
01:05:18I'm just a block that way.
01:05:19And you don't,
01:05:20it doesn't matter
01:05:21how far away you are from home.
01:05:22You always say
01:05:23you're just a block that way.
01:05:25And they're like,
01:05:26I'll give you a ride.
01:05:28You want to come in here?
01:05:29You want to,
01:05:31Hey, how much?
01:05:33They say how much
01:05:34and they look at you like this.
01:05:36And all I want to say
01:05:37then and there is,
01:05:39I have a dick.
01:05:40When he did come out,
01:05:44I guess I didn't have
01:05:45the typical macho
01:05:48father freak out
01:05:49where that's not going to fly
01:05:51in my house
01:05:51kind of reaction.
01:05:54You know,
01:05:55I felt like I was
01:05:56already prepared for it.
01:05:57And as a result,
01:05:59it just kind of was like
01:06:02water off a duck's back.
01:06:04You know,
01:06:04it just kind of rolled right off
01:06:06and didn't have
01:06:07a strong effect
01:06:08on me.
01:06:11And as a,
01:06:12I think that was
01:06:14positive for him.
01:06:17Whether,
01:06:19whether he thinks that or not,
01:06:21I don't know.
01:06:21But
01:06:23maybe that
01:06:24was
01:06:26something that he used
01:06:27to
01:06:28know that it was okay.
01:06:30And I'm sure
01:06:31he already knew
01:06:32it was okay
01:06:33because,
01:06:34you know,
01:06:38you have to be okay
01:06:39with yourself first
01:06:40before you can tell
01:06:41other people
01:06:44where you are
01:06:45in your life.
01:06:46And
01:06:47I've always been
01:06:48of the opinion
01:06:49that
01:06:51at the end of the day,
01:06:52the only opinion,
01:06:53the only person's
01:06:56opinion that matters
01:06:57is your own.
01:06:58it doesn't matter
01:06:59what other people think.
01:07:02As long as you're
01:07:03comfortable with
01:07:03who you are,
01:07:05everybody else
01:07:06can just...
01:07:09Did you get that?
01:07:21I'm America's
01:07:22next drag
01:07:23superstar.
01:07:25For about
01:07:2660 more seconds.
01:07:28I feel like
01:07:29I'm supposed to have
01:07:30a ton of feelings
01:07:31right now
01:07:31and I kind of feel
01:07:32numb instead.
01:07:33I feel like
01:07:34everyone wants me
01:07:35to be like,
01:07:38I'm not the queen
01:07:39anymore,
01:07:39but I don't feel
01:07:40that way.
01:07:41I just feel
01:07:42excited.
01:07:44Like,
01:07:44I mean,
01:07:45it's all a fantasy,
01:07:46you know.
01:07:48I feel like
01:07:49I have this
01:07:50responsibility
01:07:50to always be,
01:07:51like,
01:07:52staying true
01:07:52to the message
01:07:53that I put forth
01:07:55at the beginning
01:07:55of all of this,
01:07:56you know.
01:08:12You know,
01:08:12to make the world
01:08:13a better place
01:08:14than you found it
01:08:15and, like,
01:08:16to not let the little
01:08:17things get to you
01:08:18and, you know,
01:08:19just remaining positive
01:08:21and trying to always
01:08:23be the kind of person
01:08:24that you want
01:08:25the world
01:08:26to perceive you to be
01:08:27and don't get caught up
01:08:28in, like,
01:08:29negative trauma
01:08:30that has nothing
01:08:31to do with you,
01:08:32you know.
01:08:33I just always want
01:08:34to make sure
01:08:34I practice
01:08:35what I preach.
01:08:36What's life been like
01:08:37since you
01:08:38snatched that crown?
01:08:39Well,
01:08:40mother darling,
01:08:41I got to do
01:08:42my original show,
01:08:43The Vaudevillians,
01:08:44all across the world
01:08:46this year.
01:08:48So,
01:08:49GT,
01:08:49do you have any
01:08:50words of advice
01:08:51for America's
01:08:52next drag superstar?
01:08:53Well,
01:08:54I highly suggest
01:08:55you revel
01:08:56in every single
01:08:57second of it,
01:08:59mind your P's
01:08:59and Q's,
01:09:00and when the
01:09:01bitches come for you,
01:09:02let that bullf**k
01:09:04be water
01:09:05off a mother f**k
01:09:06duck's back.
01:09:12Well,
01:09:13James,
01:09:13your reign
01:09:14may be ending tonight,
01:09:15but it will always be
01:09:17forever
01:09:17monsoon season.
01:09:19Thank you very much.
01:09:26All right.
01:09:27The time has come
01:09:29to crown our queen.
01:09:33As always,
01:09:35I have consulted
01:09:36with the judges
01:09:36and the fans,
01:09:38but the final decision
01:09:40is mine to make.
01:09:43Adore Delano,
01:09:46Bianca Del Rio,
01:09:50Courtney Act,
01:09:53the winner
01:09:55of RuPaul's Drag Race,
01:09:58America's next
01:09:59drag superstar,
01:10:01is
01:10:06Bianca Del Rio.
01:10:31this is something I wanted
01:10:32my whole life,
01:10:34and yet,
01:10:36nothing,
01:10:39nothing feels exactly
01:10:41the way I've always
01:10:42dreamt about it to be.
01:10:44You know,
01:10:45like,
01:10:46nothing ever happens
01:10:47the way it does
01:10:48in the movies.
01:10:51Like,
01:10:52a huge, huge door
01:10:53is opened for me
01:10:55and you think,
01:10:57that thing you've been
01:10:58working for your whole life
01:10:59finally just happened
01:11:01and now,
01:11:03and now,
01:11:04everything is just
01:11:05going to be
01:11:06completely different.
01:11:07And you know what?
01:11:09It's not.
01:11:11Everything's exactly
01:11:11the same.
01:11:13I think,
01:11:14um,
01:11:15what I thought fame was
01:11:16before doing all of this,
01:11:18I think I thought
01:11:20it was going to be,
01:11:20like,
01:11:21a band-aid.
01:11:23if that makes sense.
01:11:24Like,
01:11:25I think I convinced myself,
01:11:27like,
01:11:27if I
01:11:29do this
01:11:30or I accomplish this goal
01:11:32or I make it here
01:11:33or I make it
01:11:34this far,
01:11:36then it's going to fix
01:11:37all the problems
01:11:38that I have going on.
01:11:40But now I think
01:11:42what it really is
01:11:44in this business
01:11:45is the chance
01:11:46to keep
01:11:46taking your work further.
01:11:49It's not a band-aid,
01:11:50it's just an invitation
01:11:51to work harder.
01:12:01Now say,
01:12:02I love you.
01:12:05Want to say it for daddy?
01:12:07Say,
01:12:07I love you.
01:12:09My dad wasn't around much
01:12:11when we were kids.
01:12:12I mean,
01:12:13he was an active part
01:12:14in our life,
01:12:14but not too much.
01:12:16And I,
01:12:17I always sort of longed
01:12:18for that, like,
01:12:19perfect family setting.
01:12:21There you go.
01:12:22Yeah.
01:12:23Now just work on that bike.
01:12:25Am I going to take it
01:12:26away from you?
01:12:30So I don't have any furs
01:12:31for you to try.
01:12:32And why does she never
01:12:33wear her wig
01:12:33when I visit?
01:12:35She looks really good
01:12:36in mink.
01:12:38We were very disparate
01:12:41and disjointed as kids.
01:12:43I feel like ever since
01:12:45we've started to get to
01:12:46know each other
01:12:46as adults,
01:12:48everything's been
01:12:48completely different.
01:12:50If you want some more burger,
01:12:51give daddy a kiss.
01:12:55Fine.
01:13:02Why do you have to have
01:13:03that look on your face?
01:13:04I think it took us
01:13:06some time apart
01:13:08and for us to realize
01:13:10how different we are
01:13:12but how similar
01:13:13and how many struggles
01:13:14we've shared together.
01:13:16Exactly.
01:13:17See,
01:13:18this is how
01:13:18you know that you have
01:13:20a cool family
01:13:21is when your little brother
01:13:22starts getting you drag gifts.
01:13:26I don't even think
01:13:27we ever,
01:13:27we had,
01:13:28what,
01:13:28you can't touch anything
01:13:29because it's still free.
01:13:30I know,
01:13:30but you have like,
01:13:32oh,
01:13:32I thought it was a beard.
01:13:33I'm not going to say
01:13:34that I wasn't petrified
01:13:36when I found out
01:13:37he was having a baby.
01:13:39But now.
01:13:40I was really nervous.
01:13:41Well,
01:13:42what do you happen
01:13:42to be nervous about?
01:13:44I was nervous
01:13:45because,
01:13:46you know,
01:13:47you're young
01:13:48and there's still
01:13:49so much I know
01:13:49you want to do
01:13:50and I didn't want
01:13:52you to miss out
01:13:52on the things
01:13:53that you want to do
01:13:54at this age.
01:13:55You know what
01:13:56I wanted to do?
01:13:57What?
01:13:58I wanted to have a baby.
01:13:59You wanted to have a baby
01:14:01when you had a baby?
01:14:01I honestly did.
01:14:03I,
01:14:03you know,
01:14:04with me it was,
01:14:05we never had
01:14:06that whole family.
01:14:07We never had
01:14:08the mom and dad
01:14:09and the family trips
01:14:11and all that stuff
01:14:12and so,
01:14:13I feel like
01:14:13I sort of jumped into it
01:14:15because that's the role
01:14:16I always wanted to play.
01:14:18We had to grow up
01:14:18with so much,
01:14:20you know,
01:14:20kind of
01:14:21cutting corners
01:14:21and struggles
01:14:22and like,
01:14:23you know,
01:14:24figuring everything out
01:14:25and I just didn't want
01:14:27to raise a baby
01:14:28in the same kind
01:14:29of struggles
01:14:29we were raised in
01:14:30and that's what
01:14:31I was worried about
01:14:32for you
01:14:33because,
01:14:33you know,
01:14:33you're still young
01:14:34and figuring things
01:14:35out for yourself
01:14:35but then I watch you
01:14:37with your baby
01:14:39and I just see
01:14:39a full-grown adult
01:14:40all of a sudden.
01:14:41But the best thing
01:14:42for me
01:14:43is that you're letting me
01:14:44be a part of it
01:14:45and that I get to
01:14:46pour so much attention
01:14:48into my little baby knees.
01:14:49I can't help
01:14:50but take
01:14:51money from my
01:14:52Auntie James.
01:14:54People always warn you
01:14:56when you come
01:14:57into money
01:14:58that your family
01:14:58is going to come
01:14:59ask him for it
01:15:00all the time
01:15:00and Jeremy really
01:15:01never ever asks it
01:15:03until Chloe was born
01:15:04he never really
01:15:05asked for any kind
01:15:06of help and stuff
01:15:07and I really told him
01:15:09right away
01:15:10that I want to do
01:15:11everything to make sure
01:15:12that, you know,
01:15:14he has what he needs
01:15:14to take care of Chloe.
01:15:17I love you, Jerren.
01:15:18I love you, too.
01:15:22You've got all this
01:15:24powder on your face now.
01:15:26Ah, I feel like a superstar.
01:15:29You know,
01:15:31I am very proud of him.
01:15:34He, he did something
01:15:39he got himself
01:15:40out of where he was
01:15:42and he decided early
01:15:45that he didn't want
01:15:47to have that sort of life
01:15:51that he was living
01:15:52with his mother
01:15:53because I wasn't,
01:15:55you know, there
01:15:57and he pulled himself
01:15:58out of that situation.
01:16:01Oh, God, don't get that.
01:16:03You know who gave me
01:16:04this dress?
01:16:05Sharon Needles
01:16:06on New Year's Eve.
01:16:09It's sabotage, though,
01:16:10because the sequins
01:16:11stick to themselves.
01:16:15I thought it was
01:16:16the sweetest thing
01:16:16in the world.
01:16:17I wore it for five minutes
01:16:18and I was like,
01:16:19that bitch.
01:16:20She put me
01:16:21in a booby trap dress.
01:16:22But I love it.
01:16:23It's so gorgeous.
01:16:25Oh.
01:16:27Oh.
01:16:32Oh.
01:16:32Oh.
01:16:48Oh.
01:16:52Oh.
01:16:54Oh.
01:16:58Oh.
01:17:09I'm really glad that Jinx is something that Jarrett can turn to when everything's getting crazy, and like, that's just
01:17:16who he is.
01:17:21I love Jinx, and I'm a big fan of the whole Jinx one soon persona and everything, but I kind
01:17:27of just, like, I'm sick of it, because I want my brother to come home, you know?
01:17:36I've learned a lot from Jarek. I mean, Jarek is an inspiration to me.
01:17:41Seeing where he's come from, being there with him, and now seeing where he is today, just shows that you
01:17:48can do anything you set your mind out to.
01:18:09I've learned so much from Jarek. It feels like he's always been teaching me. I'm just so proud of him.
01:18:18It's kind of weird, because my family had kind of become very disparate, and we were all kind of very
01:18:25separate and, you know, drifting apart in the last year or so.
01:18:33And now my family's kind of, like, reforming and doing really well.
01:18:38Like, my mom and I, our relationship is better than it's been in a long time, and Jacob is going
01:18:45to school proud every day of his family.
01:18:48And, you know, I've given him something to brag about a little bit at school, and that's kind of cute.
01:18:54So, um, so there have been really unexpected positive repercussions that have nothing to do with drag, and have nothing,
01:19:04like, who would have thought going on a reality competition-based TV show for drag queens that my family would
01:19:12have this, like, second chance to all be together again.
01:19:16I think that's pretty, like, that's pretty special.
01:19:20I'm so tired. All I can see is X's, O's, and my own damn name.
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